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Transcript Rabbi Wilfred Shuchat: Page 109, in the standard prayerbook [Mincha service begins, Chazzan Mendeslon begins chanting in Hebrew] [Chazzan Mendelson recites the Kaddish prayer, choir responds] [Chazzan […]
Transcript Dr. Harry Ballon: Rabbi Shuchat, Mayor Tucker, Mr. Heillig, Mr. Levine, fellow congregants and friends, on behalf of the trustees of Congregation Shaar Hashomayim, it is my […]
Transcript Junior Congregation Member: Would the congregation kindly rise for the opening prayer. [Bustling, people standing] Junior Congregation Member: Almighty God, in thy name the members of Shaar […]
Cantor Nathan Mendelson standing in front of the Shaar Hashomayim’s Torah Ark.
The Sisterhood’s organizing committee for the 1967 Menorah Ball, held on Chanukah.
The pamphlet distributed for the building extension campaign when it was first launched in 1965 with the aims of raising the necessary funds to begin construction. Transcription: […]
This letter from Rabbi Shuchat was found in a time capsule concealed in the cornerstone laid in 1967 as part of the building extension, later extracted in 2022. […]
President of Israel Zalman Shazar (1889-1974), President of Israel (1963-1973), attending the opening of the Pavilion of Judaism at Montreal’s Expo 67.
Rabbi Wilfred Shuchat, Mayor of Westmount M. L. Tucker. and Synagogue President Dr. Harry Ballon, sharing the ceremonial shovel at the turning of the sod ceremony (1966) which […]
The souvenir booklet from the Pavilion of Judaism at Expo 67. The idea for the Pavilion was conceived of by the Shaar’s Rabbi Wilfred Shuchat.
The front cover of the programme for the first B’not Mitzvah (group Bat Mitzvah) ceremony held at the Shaar in 1961. Transcription Congregation Shaar Hashomayim Chanukah Service and […]
The B’not Mitzvah group of 1965. The group bat mitzvah ceremony was introduced at the Shaar just 4 years prior.
